One Week Down!

Morning all :)

Irs saturday morning and the sun is shining. I decided not to go to the game reserve this morning with some of the group as i was exhausted and needed some good sleep after a couple of late nights. Im currently working hard to fight off the illnesses that many people in my house are suffering with due to working with sick children all the time. So far so good :)

Yesterday - Friday was my 4th day at my placement, things are going really well. I gave the teacher a break and took my class of 5th graders 10-11 year olds about 45 of them outside. I read them a story and then we did some running races, they where so excitable. The teachers at the school are so friendly and have made us feel really comfortable already.

When we returned home at 1 o'clock we found balloons and a bbq cooking in the garden and the house staff preparing a mini bbq-braai party for us to celebrate thier legend and here Mandela's 90th birthday. He really is the nation's grandfather!!

Afterwards i went to Cavendish Mall in Claremont to meet Dean (Alexander's Bishops Exchange) was very relieved to see him after a stressed out taxi ride their with quite a crazy driver. We drove to Constantia the capetown suburbia which was really nice. Beautiful houses and stopped at this nice restaurant place..then he showed me his house and we quickly drove around the 'Bishop's' campus which was really really nice and only about 5 mins from my home base . We get the weekends free to do side trips and sightseeing so when i got home i went back to Cavendish with some of the girls to get some essentials we needed and look around. Then we went to 'Oblivion' a nice chilled wine bar to meet the other girls as some are leaving today to go back to the states. A couple of them have become locals so we got asked to test their new cocktails which was good fun. It got really busy by the time we where leaving but the Safari bus left at 6 am so it was a resonably early night. Going to watch the rugby match soon SA VS Australia..I hope your all keeping well.. take care. Love K x